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4 possible freak election outcomes

If winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote is something that could probably only happen to Obama, a surprise landslide may be a Romney-only contingency. After all, as Republicans and Democrats alike have found this cycle, it’s awfully difficult to change voters’ perceptions of a sitting president.

“Barring some catastrophically negative turn of events for Romney, people have made up their minds about President Obama. It’s Romney that they’re trying to figure out. There could be something that happens in the final 13 days that causes the Romney trend or surge to accelerate,” Lombardo said.

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Should Obama happen to win by a far wider-than-expected margin, that’s probably less about surprise events than it is about turnout. If the electorate that shows up on Nov. 6 mirrors the population that voted in 2008, Romney might have a hard time getting close to the president.

A split decision in the Senate

OK, so the presidential vote will probably unfold without incident — but even if it does, there’s still the potential for chaos down-ballot. The campaign for control of the U.S. Senate has grown more unsettled with the approach of Election Day, with elections that once seemed destined to break for one side or the other getting even more competitive.

The likeliest outcome, as of right now, is that Democrats retain control of the chamber. But given the preponderance of toss-up races, there’s always the chance of a 50-50 tie in the upper chamber.

It wouldn’t take much for that to happen. Republicans currently hold 47 seats, but are expected to lose seats in Massachusetts and Maine. If they were to pick up Democratic-held seats in Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin and Virginia — or win a slightly tougher race in Ohio or Connecticut — that would create a 50-50 balance of power.

Increasingly confident Democrats don’t think much of this scenario. Even if Republicans did capture all those seats (and Democrats don’t think they will) they’d also have to stave off Democratic victories in Republican-held Indiana, Arizona and Nevada to produce a tie. Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock’s comments this week about abortion and rape made a Senate tie — let alone a Republican takeover — rather less likely.

“There are five or six places where I don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen. There’s a real possibility that there’s going to be real indecision when it comes to control of the Senate,” Devine said.

Democratic pollster John Anzalone argued that the trend line is clearly in his party’s favor — and that on the off-chance of a 50-50 Senate, they might be able to count on a Democratic vice president to break the tie anyway.

“Romney is still having to run the table to win the Electoral College,” Anzalone said. “So even if it were tied, I still think Joe Biden would be there to break the tie.”

None of the scenarios listed in the article are likely this year, despite all the press misreading of the happenings. Too many members of the media have bought the Republican bluff that they are the more energized and they have the momentum. Energized? About a third of Republicans never did like Romney and will have to hold their noses to vote for him, if they bother to vote at all. And momentum? It is our president who has the momentum. Most in the press fail to see the bounce President Obama is getting and will continue to get from decisively winning the last two debates. Those debates also made it clearer and clearer to voters that Romney is truly a "turnaround artist," for we find he has changed his position every time we turn around. President Obama will win the popular vote by bigger numbers than anyone seems to be guessing and will probably win over 300 electoral votes. Voters will break for the one they can trust and break against Romney and Lyin' Ryan, confidence tricksters that talk out of two sides of their mouths on every issue.

Will Obama capture the Cemetery Vote? Will Obama capture the Food Stamp Vote? Will Obama capture the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Vote? Will Obama capture the Welfare Vote? Will Obama capture the once loyal media vote? Will Obama capture the once loyal black vote? Will Obama capture the once loyal Jewish vote? My guess Obama will have "diminished capacities" as many once loyal voters have woken up to the Obama Corruption Machine.

Could the 2012 campaign end in a tie? Is it possible for Mitt Romney to end up as president — with Joe Biden as his vice president? Could the presidential election end up decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, again?

The short answer is: probably not. To call those outcomes improbable would be a huge understatement. The strong likelihood is that one candidate will win both the Electoral College and the popular vote on Nov. 6 and bring our long 2012 slog to an end.

POLITICO runs possibilities up the flag pole then shoots them down. What else could they have done? Maybe a tiny bit of INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM on the Benghazi cover-up? Obama and crew stood by, watched in real time, and did NOTHING as Americans were butchered in Libya, and our consulate was overrun.

Florida Senator Bill Nelson voted for ObamaCare, so he approved of this action. Hard to imagine, eh? The sitting Senator of America's number 1 retirement state voted to REMOVE $715,000,000,000 from Medicare funding to facilitate a health care takeover.

It takes a Democrat hack to tow the party line when it directly harms your state. Thanks Bill Nelson! Spit!

In the end - Romney will either wind up winning Michigan, PA, WI or Ohio. I don't see him getting all 4 but with Virginia, NH, FL, CO, NC, Iowa it will put him over the top. We know he will win the popular vote - polling 4 points above Obama in all national polls. I would say somewhere between 1-2 million vote win in the end. The question is by how much does he win the electoral college by?

There is the possibility that Obama wins but it would be with another sharply divided country and the likelihood of him being able to accomplish anything would be very small.

Country is ready for big things. Time for the adults to come back into the room. Romney with 292 EV's!

The worst "freak" outcome would be that the "freaks" on the radical left and the "freaks" from Labor,Academia,La Raza, and the "freak" followers of the REVs Jackson,Sharpton,and Jeremiah Wright, manage to get the "freak" in the White House reelected.THAT would be the absolute worst "freak" outcome.

@Jingoist: "WE need to overcome Democrat voter fraud." Seriously. Do you ever read/watch REAL news. You know... news not NOISE? With the exception of the son of some congressman somewhere, there is zero NADA zilch evidence of democratic voter fraud. If you would pop your head out of the sand momentarily, you will find plenty of evidence on the GOP side all over Florida, Colorado and Pennsylvania. I particular "like" the video of the girl admitting she was only registering voters who supported Mitt Romney and that she was doing so on taxpayer dollars, since she said she worked for the county clerk.

I think the GOP takes Senate seats in Virginia, Ohio, Nevada, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Indiana. This will get them 51 Senate seats even without Brown's Massachusett's seat or the Missouri seat--if it comes to that. Pennslvania is definitely in play and could easily go GOP as well. Ditto Connecticut. Florida is still competitive. Massachusetts and Missouri could come through--though that would be more likely if Romney's margin leads to 350+ Electoral College votes--a real enough possiblity though today many would laugh. I predicted a Romney/GOP landslide months ago and have no reason whatever to back off that stance today. On a very strong GOP night I can see a Senate majority for the GOP of 56 Senators and I'm projecting Romney 360 to Obama's 178 Electoral College votes as a best case. Be happy but remember to vote. The fate of your nation depends on it.

@Sam houston - Spoken BY a true partisan hack who attacks yet provides no substance for their assertions. Nice job. Now please do not address me again. I won't be responding. Ever. Perhaps after you grow up and or your mother teaches you some manners. Whichever comes later.